So combined more than one-quarter of MN's federal #Medicaid funding is in the process of being blocked. While MN has legal recourse through a complex admin appeals process (and eventually through the courts), that will take a lot of time. (4/x)

“If you just did what I told you to do, then I wouldn’t get angry and have to hit you” - Feds to MN

idk if people not in MN realize it but we’ve been through such tremendous trauma in the past few months. Melissa Hortman was murdered only 8 months ago. Think of all we’ve endured since then, locally AND nationally! Federal program cuts, murder of public officials, a federal occupation, thousands

We live in a metropolitan area of the United States. People who are going about their lives like other Americans are being taken away for no reason and trauma is being inflicted at schools, hospitals, neighborhoods. It’s appalling that complaints are made about their dining options being affected.

Okay. Between this and the attack on @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, wtf is with Dem members of congress getting attacked this week?

Another reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid’s history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

My two interests - sad cold wet Nazis and Broadway music.

My colleague (and expert on Medicaid law) Andy Schneider’s new blog explores the approach and fact checks the Trump Administration’s threat to withhold a significant chunk of Minnesota’s Medicaid funding. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...

The surge of DHS agents into Minnesota has done tremendous harm to the people of Minnesota, and I urge those who have personally experienced or directly witnessed that harm to share their stories with my office. To submit a report, visit: ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Action/

It seems pretty clear Trump intends to bomb someone soon. I just can’t tell if it will be Iran, Greenland, or Minneapolis.

You can honor the advocacy of moms without being condescending. The thing is, our work is often snubbed by the media and men in the movement.

We need an economic shutdown for the 9-5 PTO office workers until we are no longer occupied.

Thread: The Trump Admin tried to inappropriately withhold federal funds to 5 states with Democratic governors (including Minnesota) under block grants like TANF. While that was temporarily stopped through litigation, the Trump Admin is now threatening to withhold #Medicaid funding from MN (1/x)

There should be more attention on how republicans are making children, families, and people with disabilities suffer. Even during the federal shutdown, they went to the Supreme Court to make sure they could starve children.

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

Over 1.1 million Minnesotans depend on Medicaid for their health care access, 43% of whom are children. What’s more, 34% of births in MN are covered by Medicaid. files.kff.org/attachment/f... This is people’s lives. This is not a game, & anyone who views it as such should stay the hell away from CMS

Minnesota will lose its limited bench of true health care expertise in the Senate with the departure of Wiklund and Mann at a time when our state needs it most. It’s not sexy but we absolutely need to recruit and retain more technocrats in government.

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest

Dr. Malone thanks Blaxill and Niven for their balance, integrity, rigor and work ethics. Done with working group. Acknowledges there is no hepatitis B working group, it's in childhood/adolescence schedule workgroup. Members still not listed.

Hepatitis B safety by Mark Blaxill, a longtime anti-vaccine activist, which, as @bylenasun reported, worked to mislead people in Minnesota during the measles outbreak: www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...

Great time for convicted fraudster nursing home owners who pay off POTUS tho. #priorities www.mcknights.com/news/trump-p...

Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

“Dr. Prasad said that he was “open to vigorous discussions and debate” from F.D.A. employees but that anyone who did not agree with the new core principles should submit their resignations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/h...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signs rescission (overturning) of rules to test talc for asbestos. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21407.pdf

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said. thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

Horrible medical debt because I was born with spina bifida. Glad the republicans want to go back to the days of personal responsibility in health care!

A lot of the coverage has omitted the exclusion of Public Health degrees (MPH and DrPH) aspph.org/department-o... The general pattern is that the degree programs being "reclassified" are entry points into professions that have approached parity for women.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

He’s not the first MN gop elected official to say this on the record…

Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."

Talwani accuses the Trump administration of playing "vindictive games with the states."

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

IMO, it doesn’t matter what legal procedural maneuvers are happening. At the end of the day, the Trump regime asked SCOTUS to stop food assistance ASAP. And because of that, we are in chaos. I will read into this as another step to prevent children from eating by Trump and co.

BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month. The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments. DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.

Hot take - trunk or treats are one of the most accessible ways to enjoy Halloween. Ok thanx bye!

I am shocked I’m still shocked.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

You don’t know what this means to me.

I believe we are where we are today with MAHA because for decades, the vaccine issue was regulated to “women” or “mommy” issues, instead of a mobilization of radicalization and propaganda. Bc of this, the threat was never taken seriously.

Unexpected feed lineup here. Religion subtext: Vance is Catholic.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

The Supreme Court said it was unlawful for the Biden administration to forgive student loans because it lacked congressional authority but has no problem with the Trump administration gutting the entire Department of Education without congressional approval. This is a lawless court.

The IRS just lifted a decades-long ban on clergy endorsing political candidates. But most Americans don't want to hear endorsements from the pulpit, according to surveys Here's the story, with @jackjenkins.me & @bmietana.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

Less than a month following a political assassination of a Democrat leader.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.